Non profit charity trains rescued dogs to first responders

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I have to give kudos where they are well earned like the founder of the not for profit group called the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation (SDF) that began in 1996 by a retired school teacher named Wilma Melville. Wilma had the idea of starting a business for dogs that were in animal shelters when she and her pet dog went to work on the Oklahoma City Oklahoma bombing in 1995. In the midst of that dark event, Wilma realized that many of the fire and police departments would be needing dogs that came from animal shelters to work with first responders to do the work of searching for missing persons and other kinds of work. The breed dogs and dogs who are in animal shelters around the nation would be recruited by members of the SDF Headquarters in Santa Paula California for a period of eight to ten months to work with law enforcement officers free of charge after they finished their training. What makes this group so special is that the dogs that work with law enforcement can live with their owners instead of being put to sleep since they are not able to be adopted by an average citizen who wants to adopt them as their pets.